bensin
BislamaEdit
EtymologyEdit
Cognate to Tok Pisin bensin (“petrol”). According to Terry Crowley, this term entered Bislama before 1885, either from German Benzin, or from English benzene, as the meaning of that term was not as narrow or technical in the nineteenth century as it is today.[1]
NounEdit
bensin
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Terry Crowley, Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: the emergence of a national language in Vanuatu (1990), page 137.
FaroeseEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bensin n (genitive singular bensins, uncountable)
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of bensin (singular only) | ||
|---|---|---|
| n3s | singular | |
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | bensin | bensinið |
| accusative | bensin | bensinið |
| dative | bensini | bensininum |
| genitive | bensins | bensinsins |
IndonesianEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From German Benzin, from Benzoe + -in.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bensin c
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of bensin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | bensin | bensinen | — | — |
| Genitive | bensins | bensinens | — | — |
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- bensin in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
Tok PisinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Cognate to Bislama bensin (“petrol”) (a term which entered Bislama before 1885). According to Terry Crowley, the term derives either from German Benzin, or from English benzene, as the meaning of that term was not as narrow or technical in the nineteenth century as it is today.[1]
NounEdit
bensin
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Terry Crowley, Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: the emergence of a national language in Vanuatu (1990), page 137.